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Dockers hold flares during a protest in front of Portugal's parliament in Lisbon against the new law for port workers. Rafael Marchante/Reuters

Vice President Joe Biden smiles as he makes a call on Costco employee Ivey Stewart's (l.) cell phone after shopping at a Costco store in Washington. Biden went shopping for presents and to highlight the importance of renewing middle-class tax cuts. Susan Walsh/AP

A lone chair sits on the beach in Breezy Point in the New York borough of Queens a month after the neighborhood was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The storm killed 132, left thousands homeless and caused economic damages topping $50 billion. Adrees Latif/Reuters

A villager transports bamboo down the Ciberang River to Lebak Regency, Banten province, Indonesia, so it can be sold. Beawiharta/Reuters

Azza el-Gharf of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (l.) speaks with other members of the assembly during the vote on a final draft of a new Egyptian constitution in Cairo. The assembly, overwhelmingly made up of allies of President Mohammed Morsi, abruptly moved up the vote in order to pass the draft before Egypt's Supreme Constitution Court rules on Sunday on whether to dissolve the panel. Mohammed Asad/AP

A woman walks her dog on a snow-covered street in central Stockholm, Sweden. Jessica Gow/Scanpix Sweden/AP

Lasha Pataraya pulls an 8.28-metric ton truck with his left ear as he tries to set a new record for the Guinness World Records in the town of Rustavi, Georgia. Shakh Aivazov/AP

Kayapo tribal leader Raoni Metuktire (from l.) poses with France's President Francois Hollande and Amazonian Kayapo members after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Christophe Ena/AP

Palestinians take part in a rally in Gaza City, Gaza, in support of the efforts of President Mahmoud Abbas to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations. The UN General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government. Suhaib Salem/Reuters

Operator Carl Owens watches the operation of a cotton picker at Baxley & Baxley Farms as he harvests cotton in Minturn, S.C. The third generation farm, located along South Carolina's cotton corridor, harvested just under 1,100 acres of cotton this season. Randall Hill/Reuters

Men hold their voting cards during elections in an Algiers suburb. Algerians headed to the polls to elect local and provincial councils in a contest that is expected to shore up the position of the ruling party. Sidali Djarboub/AP

People smile as they find out that Secret Santa, a wealthy philanthropist from Kansas City, Mo., will be handing them $100 bills at St. Joseph's Social Service Center in Elizabeth, N.J. Rich Schultz/AP

A campaigner wearing a giant mask of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch burns the Leveson report while another wearing a mask of British Prime Minister David Cameron sits tied to a chair during a protest in London. The protesters were calling on MPs to back reform legislation to stop any one media organization from developing a stranglehold over the British media Sang Tan/AP

A student rides his motorcycle across a new bridge in Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak Regency, Indonesia. Indonesia's largest steel producer, PT Krakatau Steel, and some NGOs built the new bridge to replace one that was damaged by flooding. Beawiharta/Reuters

Members of Malaysia's ruling United Malays National Organization prepare for the arrival of Prime Minister Najib Razak during their annual gathering in Kuala Lumpur. Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London after appearing to face charges linked to alleged corrupt payments to public officials. Neil Hall/Reuters

Kuwaiti officials accompanying Kuwait's Emir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah look on as he visits Westminster Abbey in London on the last day of his state visit to Britain. Sean Dempsy/AP

A devotee waits to offer prayers at a Hindu temple during the Jhiri fair at Kanachack village on the outskirts of Jammu, India. According to legend, the fair is held in memory of Baba Jitu, an honest farmer who killed himself since he was not prepared to submit to the unjust demands of a landlord who wanted him to part with his crop. Channi Anand/AP

People stand near candles arranged in the shape of an AIDS ribbon as they gather to mark the upcoming World AIDS Day in Kiev, Ukraine. People all over the world commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1. Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters

Rabbi Yitschok Deutsch (c.), a member of Neturei Karta, an international organization of Orthodox Jews, listens during a meeting on Palestine in New York. 'This is a good step for peace,' said Rabbi Deutsch. Palestinians are expected to win UN recognition as a state. Bebeto Matthews/AP

Bangladeshi protesters hold placards and lie down on the ground posing as dead bodies as they condemn the death of workers in a weekend fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Saturday's fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd. killed 112 people. Activists hope the tragedy will invigorate their lengthy, but so far fruitless, efforts to upgrade safety standards and force stronger government oversight of the powerful industry. Pavel Rahman/AP

Buddhist monks with burn injuries are treated at a hospital in Monywa, northwestern Myanmar. Security forces cracked down on protesters occupying a copper mine using water cannons and other devices to break up the rally hours before opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was expected to hear their grievances. Unexplained fires engulfed the protest camps and dozens of Buddhist monks and villagers were injured. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Lindsay Lohan, her face shielded, is escorted from the 10th Precinct police station in New York after being charged for allegedly striking a woman at a nightclub. Police say Lohan was arrested at 4 a.m. and charged with third-degree assault. Louis Lanzano/AP

A boy with a Mexican flag, stained with paint to resemble blood, lies down in a chalk outline representing the body of a crime victim during a protest in Mexico City. People gathered to protest against the government of President Felipe Calderon, who has been in power for six years, who ordered an offensive against drug cartels which led to a spike in violent crime and left at least 60,000 people dead and thousands more missing. Edgard Garrido/Reuters

A steel installation, replacing the traditional Christmas tree, is illuminated at Brussels' Grand Place in Belgium. The 25-metre high sculpture was designed by French architects Pier Schneider and Francois Wunschel. Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Assailed first by a debt crisis, then acting as a front line in Europe’s migrant crisis, Greece has had an extremely difficult few years. Yet it has avoided civil conflict and has remained in the eurozone, contrary to many expectations.